Anatomy of Your Enemy

Listen Closely because you will all see this weapon used in our lives. It can be used on a society of the most ignorant or the most highly educated. We need to see these tactics as a weapon against humanity and not as truth.

This is how to create an enemy! This is how to start a war!

First Step: Create the enemy. Sometimes this will be done for you.

Second Step: Be sure the enemy you have chosen is nothing like you. Find obvious differences like race, language, religion, fashion. Emphasize that their soldiers are not doing a job. They are heartless murderers who enjoy killing.

Third Step: Once these differences are established, continue to reinforce them with all disseminated information.

Fourth Step: Have the media broadcast only the ruling party’s information. This can be done through state-run media; remember in times of conflict all for-profit media repeats the ruling party’s information; therefore, all for-profit media is state-run.

Fifth Step: Show this enemy in actions that seem strange, militant or different. Always portray the enemy as non-human, evil, a killing machine.

This is how to create an enemy! This is how to start a war! This is how to create an enemy!

Sixth Step: Eliminate opposition to the ruling party. Create an us-versus-them mentality. Leave no room for opinions in-between. One that does not support all actions of the ruling party should be considered a traitor.

Seventh Step: Use nationalistic and/or religious symbols and rhetoric to define all actions. This can be achieved with slogans such as freedom-loving people versus those who hate freedom. This can also be achieved with the use of flags.

Eigth Step: Align all actions with the dominant deity. It is very effective to use terms like, “It is God’s will” or “God Bless our Nation”.

Ninth Step: Design propaganda to show that your soldiers have feelings, hopes, families and loved ones. Make it clear that your soldiers are doing a duty. They do not want to or like to kill.

Tenth Step: Create an atmosphere of fear and instability, then offer the ruling party as the only solution to comfort the public’s fears; remembering that fear of the unknown is always the strongest fear.

This is how to create an enemy! This is how to start a war! This is how to create an enemy!

We are not countries.
We are not nations.
We are not religions.
We are not gods.
We are not weapons.
We are not ammunition.
We are not killers.
We will not be tools.

Motherfucker! I will not die!
I will not kill! I will not be your slave!
I will not fight your battles! I will not die on your battlefields! I will not fight for your wealth! I am not a fighter! I’m a human being!